What matters...

What matters is that you and I, right now, understand what it means to be free of reaction. Not the writer telling you a theory of what it means and you accepting it or rejecting it, but for both of us, the actual understanding of this moment, the actual going through of it which requires an immediate movement free of reaction.

The abomination, the despoilment and the disorder of life, is a toxic fog of reaction, which means no whole action. Which means gestures or negligences which are not born in the truth and of the truth, but born of a mind which translates the truth , the fact, to protect a sense of control. So reaction and therefore disorder has its roots in the human mind. We know all the horrifying symtoms and expressions of this disorder, this reaction, but what is the root? That is our question.

Now before you say, "I don't react, or I'm not going to react," please look. The roots of reaction, if you but look, are the very delusion that is the "ME"... the very platform which says, "I do this or don't do that." Please look at this. Please. The "ME" is that sense of personal choice, personal control, belief, and continuation which has congealed and propagated in the human mind. It IS reaction. It necessarily sees itself as separate or different from the fact of awareness (or in it's separation romantically asserts "I am one with creation"), and so thinks it can act on awareness to change it or "maintain order". This is the churning contradiction and conflict of human life.

If you look, you will see that this apparently separate entity can be nothing but a bundle of memories claiming authority over the actual fact - the misery and conflict that is happening. It can only choose and control from the standpoint of the past, obviously, so everything it chooses and would control into being could only be of memory, and therefore necessarily at odds with what is actually happening... always perpetuating the disorder... never a creative act. That's obvious isn't it? Are you seeing the truth of this? A mind, which is in the truth of this would be like a light which sees the falseness of any movement away from the fact as "me". For such a mind, observation could only take place free of "an observer." Such a mind would be unavailable to the roots of reaction, the "me", and would therefore be an end to the fog of reaction and human disorder. There would be a life of passionate action.